Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign finance laws,” newly filed complaints allege.

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otakon is already gas

Mantaray holding up a lost wallet

Ok, Otakon cosplay is already at a high bar

Huh! I never knew. Interesting.

... On reflection I'd still be more interested in SimAnt. Never did play the Sims.

One thing I neglected to mention yesterday:

There's clearly a 100% Annoyance Tax being levied against FunkoPops.

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And the thing is?

Tolkien *did* explain What Gollum Was Up To.

Aragorn and Gandalf spent years finding him. They stowed him in Mirkwood until the elven guards fucked up by letting him have a walk, then a band of orcs rescued/kidnapped him. Legolas was *at* the Council of Elrond to explain this!

If Tolkien wanted you to know something, he would have told you himself. This guy gave us the fucking Silmarillion.

Don’t. Do not. Do literally anything other than this. See a licensed therapist. Get a plant. Volunteer at an animal shelter. Shitpost 24 hours a day on Bluesky. Anything but this.

Otakon Saturday! Still Sojiro.

Here's Friday:

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Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

If kids’ schools trained them for work based on what everyone thought the hot new technology was going to be, both my kids would have spent the past several years learning about the blockchain. This is why schools don’t attempt to do workplace training: life is pretty long.

One son for sale, forty dollars.

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He LOST.

YOU win.

(You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)

They’re so jealous you can write.
They’re so jealous you can draw.
They’re so jealous you can make music.

They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.

Suburban man retreats to safe space.

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

The news cycle has conjured up so many nonexistent threats and make-believe scandals that it's all the FOX-pilled boomers can think about. While their country disintegrates around them.

Our infrastructure is crumbling, Social Security won't be there for my generation, public services are being criminally defunded, damage is being done to the nation via gleeful, open looting that will take a generation reverse, but TV has got y'all arguing about 4 trans girls who wanna play soccer.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.

If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

The vagabond musician from Avatar: The Last Airbender, known for his hit single "Secret Tunnel."

Clive and Jill from Final Fantasy 16.

Alucard from Castlevania.

Bowser from the Super Mario series, dressed in a fancy formal beige coat and carrying a huge bouquet of roses.

And a few more assorted cosplays to round out the day. Good night.

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There's only so much I could do with the beard. The length on the chin was untenable and I didn't want to bother with coloring my refined silver.

But thanks! Others have said I got his vibe down.

Andrew Cuomo tweet: In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @zohrankmamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.

*after getting my head punched clean off my neck in the first round* ah but now it’s round two

Andrew Cuomo tweet: In case you forgot, I’m Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario, grandson of Andrea. Welcome to the heavyweight bout, @ZohranKMamdani This is a two man race. You look tired already. It’s just the second round.

What if there were already some sort of contest where people were able to choose between them, I wonder how that would go

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

The damage is generational.

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

simple solutions to big problems do exist